[Wine]DC++ 0.668 - Annoying "tooltips"

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Jan 28 00:58:16 CST 2005


Pavel Troller wrote:
>>Hmmm, I get similar phenomona from my KDE 3.3 desktop - descriptions of icons will come up like they're supposed to, then not necessarily disappear. Perhaps some prb with video drivers?
>>
>>David
>>gnome at hawaii.rr.com
> 
> Hello David,
>   I cannot confirm this here - KDE/Qt tooltips, as well gtk2 ones, simply all
> native Linux implementations, are behaving correctly here, disappearing as
> they should. Interesting is the situation in wine - for example, MS word 97's
> tooltips are working perfectly, but tooltips in its Open File dialog window
> aren't - they show rectangles instead of letters and they exhibit the same bugs
> as DC++'s tooltips, until the dialog window is closed. So I cannot even
> generalize this that ALL tooltips from programs run by wine are wrong.
>   So it seems that maybe You have another but similar problem.

Probably so. I suppose it could be some interaction within WINE, I'm 
completely puzzled why it would behave properly at one seemingly 
identical place on screen, and not properly at another place.

-- 
David
gnome at hawaii.rr.com



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